“Why did you order false testimony?”
Taeyoon’s low voice seemed to freeze Gyeongjun’s brain, capable of reasoning through the accident.
Like the day they first met, alcohol once again overflowed into his own glass.
Nevertheless, Gyeongjun remained motionless, as if frozen.
“What I wanted to know was just one thing: the truth about my mother’s death.”
“…”
“But Chairman, you tirelessly tried to cover up that truth.”
He stopped pouring the soju into his tilted glass, instead fixing Gyeongjun with an intense gaze. It was a penetrating look that dug into the flesh.
It felt like a moment of silence for a predator that had successfully bitten the jugular of its prey.
Since the jugular had been bitten, he couldn’t move. The brain capable of reasoning through the accident had long forgotten its purpose in coming here.
Now there was only one thing left.
To struggle until the moment he died to live.
“I don’t understand… anything you’re saying.”
Absolutely not. He must not admit it. The moment he admitted it with his own mouth, he would swallow up the jugular he had been biting.
But Gyeongjun’s struggle did not reach Taeyoon.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about… Then let me explain properly.”
“…”
“It was Miss Go Yeonghee who introduced Chairman as someone who could make important testimonies. She turned out to be an amazing actress. Where did you cast such a famous actress? Moreover, her record was clean, and I almost fell for it.”
“I absolutely don’t know what you’re talking about. So, are you saying Miss Go Yeonghee lied?”
“Oh, am I a mind reader? Did Miss Go Yeonghee plan everything alone?”
Although he had expected it, Gyeongjun’s struggle was unexpectedly prolonged. However, the problem was that his expression and actions indicated that he was telling the truth.
Gyeongjun had noticeably anxious eyes. Furthermore, despite quickly hiding his shaking hands under the table, Taeyoon’s black pupils had already read everything.
Taeyoon was certain.
At least Gyeongjun was not unrelated to his mother’s case.
Still, Gyeongjun’s last struggle did not stop.
“I’m sorry. I don’t know what misunderstanding there was with Miss Go Yeonghee, but it’s something unrelated to me.”
“Unrelated, you say? Then how about this? What if I know the truth not only about my mother’s death but also about the truth of the traffic accident that killed the hostess of Seongwon Group 20 years ago?”
“!”
“My mother knew the truth about that accident. That’s why she was murdered. Chairman covered up the murder as a mere woman’s suicide. Even though the young son vehemently denied it.”
Taeyoon’s black pupils flashed with a light of agony, as if they were returning to that moment in time.
“How can you cover up the death of a woman who sought to reveal the truth to the world? Do you know what kind of person my mother was? She was someone who, even though she faced abuse from her husband every day, never once gave up hope. She was someone who, even if it meant confronting her abusive husband for the sake of her young son, fearlessly stood up to him. And yet, you have covered up the death of such a mother, reducing it to mere suicide!”
“!”
“Even now, will you continue to pretend not to know?”
Taeyoon’s chilling words sent a shiver down Gyeongjun’s spine. He could already be sure that Taeyoon came here convinced of everything. The fact that, no matter how much Gyeongjun denied it, Taeyoon wouldn’t believe him.
He was breaking into a cold sweat.
How could he escape from this situation?
However, it seemed there was no place for Gyeongjun to hide from Taeyoon’s gaze.
“The one who survived the accident, Baek Seorin, is now my wife.”
“…”
“Life is truly despicable, isn’t it? I wonder how such a connection exists. But because of the famous actress you cast and the plausible scenario, I almost lost even my wife.”
The low voice was mixed with the growl of a beast. Despite enduring and holding back his anger, Gyeongjun swallowed hard at the voice seething with rage.
How on earth could this happen!
Baek Seorin, the one from Seongwon, is his wife?
Everything was tangled, and now it was hopelessly tangled. His hands were shaking, and he could barely articulate his words.
“You not only insulted the death of my mother but also threatened the only person in the world dear to me.”
“…”
“As I’m driven to the edge of a cliff… what can I do?”
It was not a question.
It was a threat, an inexorable threat that he could do nothing more.
However, the astonishing and spine-chilling fact was that this was not the end.
“Still, despite everything, I am respected by others, having climbed up behind a former gangster. How does it feel to be in that position?”
“What…”
“Go and tell Chairman Cho.”
“!”
“The child’s play is now… over.”
Having finished speaking, he stood up as if he had no reason to stay any longer. Then, leaving the shabby restaurant, he took out his phone.
Certainly, he had seen Gyeongjun’s expression change noticeably when talking about Chairman Cho.
Thus, his previous assumptions turned into certainty.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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